Cox v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GILBERTO HINOJOSA, Justice.
A jury convicted appellant, James Para-dice Cox, of burglary of a habitation. See Tex.Penal Code Ann. § 30.02(a)(1) (Vernon 1992). Punishment was assessed by the jury at life in the penitentiary. By three points of error, appellant complains of the jury charge, the prosecutor’s jury argument, and the inadequacy of the trial court’s admonishments regarding his decision to proceed pro se. We affirm.
At trial, Nathaniel Johnson, testified that he was driving a church bus on Lee Street in Houston’s “Fifth Ward,” when he saw appellant and another person using a…
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- Breazeale v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
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